Lead Network Designer

Lead Network Designer

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Lead Network Designer to join the team in Hazelwood, MO; El Segundo, CA; Huntington Beach, CA; Huntsville, AL; Long Beach, CA; Mesa, AZ; Seattle, WA; or Plano, TX.

This individual will be responsible for defining, designing, and validating large-scale, resilient, secure network architectures across enterprise and multi-region environments. This role blends deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership to drive network strategy, standards, and complex solution delivery.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end network architecture and design for global, multi-site, data center, cloud, and hybrid network solutions

• Define high-level and detailed designs (logical and physical), including topology, routing, IP addressing, segmentation, resilience, capacity, and Quality of Service (QoS)

• Develop and maintain architecture standards, reference designs, design patterns, and best practices

• Perform capacity planning, traffic engineering, and scalability analysis

• Validate designs with modeling and lab testing

• Lead technology selection and vendor evaluations for routing, switching, Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization, Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Ethernet Virtual Private Network/Virtual Extensible Local Area Network (EVPN/VXLAN), WAN acceleration, and security integration

• Create and review solution documentation including design drawings, implementation runbooks, cutover plans, rollback procedures, and acceptance criteria

• Provide technical leadership during implementation and handover to operations

• Troubleshoot and resolve escalated design or deployment issues

• Drive cross-team collaboration with security, cloud, storage, compute, procurement, and operations to ensure cohesive solutions

• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level network engineers and designers

• Participate in architecture governance, architecture review boards, and present designs and trade-offs to stakeholders and executives

• Ensure designs meet compliance, security, performance, availability, and cost objectives

• Keep up to date on industry trends and emerging technologies

• Recommend strategic adoption where appropriate

• Present complex designs to multiple audiences, including executives

• Lead cross-functional technical discussions

• Manage multiple high-priority initiatives simultaneously

• Architect and document network reference designs and standards

• Deliver complex network projects on time and within scope

• Reduce incidents attributable to design issues

• Measure improvements in performance and availability

• Adopt and automate repeatable deployment practices

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor’s degree or higher

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise network design and architecture (or equivalent)

• 10+ years of experience designing and implementing solutions (e.g. client/server, storage, network, cloud, information security concepts, etc.)

• Experience with Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting of Local Area Networks (LAN) and Wide Area Networks (WAN)

• Experience with BGP (Border Gateway Protocal)

• Experience developing Python and Ansible scripts for automation

• Experience with network devices including Routers, Switches, and Firewalls

• Experience with precedence development, generating operating/recovery plans, capacity analysis, and constraint-based analysis

• Experience writing proposals, Request For Information (RFIs) and/or Request For Proposal (RFPs)

• Willing to work flexible hours, including on call support as needed (including weekends and holidays)

• Willing to Travel Domestically and internationally as needed

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Master’s degree or higher

• Cisco Certified Network Professional/ Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCNP/CCIE) (Service Provider, Enterprise) or equivalent expert-level certifications

• Cloud certifications: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced/Professional, Azure Architect, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud Network Engineer

• Network automation certifications or proven automation project experience

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